A/N: Hey folks! Welcome to one of my FAV chps for the second chronicle! I LOVE the set of Hoth chps :) I actually wrote them one night when i couldn't sleep, and the heater was busted and it was SO COLD and when complaining my bro went "well send your story to Hoth!" so i did. Hope you enjoy reading them as much as i enjoyed writing them!
Reveiw Response-
ShotgunChief: Thanks glad you enjoyed the first one so much, i may have to clean it up when the series is finished.
Countess Jackman: Thanks as well :D
Aldaron Moonfaling: Glad you think it is so worthy :D I wish! lol! Glad you like the humour! me and my bro struggle over every bit of Kyle humour in hopes of getting it acurate to his character :) I'll check out your story and everyone is welcome to recomend stories. best way for us all to find good ones!
Thanks to all reveiwers, your helping to make this my most popular story! It's already taking over the first part! To all potential reveiwers please do reveiw.I LOVE just general comments on the story and also good crit. It all helps :D:D
Hoth
"Ever been to Hoth before?" Jan asked Cara.
"No, heard of it though" was the reply.
"Same, although Kyle tells me he's been there before." Jan continued.
The only response was a vague grunt from Kyle's direction.
Jan rolled her eyes, trying to have a conversation with two Jedi, both with their thoughts elsewhere, was extremely one sided.
"We'll be landing soon." Jan said as she pulled out of hyperspace.
"Catch." Kyle announced as he dumped Cara's jacket on her head. "Trust me, you'll need it."
"We're landing on a snow planet where next to nothing survives. Maybe we will need some protection. Great deduction skills Jedi Master." Jan said sarcastically.
Cara rolled her eyes at the two as she reached for the crash webbing.
In that moment something happened to the ship. The emergency alarm went off and Jan turned her full attention to the controls trying to pull them out of their nosedive.
Kyle slipped as the Raven's Claw tipped and quickly grabbed one of the chairs. He saw Jan working at the controls safely strapped into her chair. As the ship shuddered Kyle saw Cara tumble out of her chair.
Then the ship crashed into the surface of the planet.
"Jan! Cara! Are you all right?" Kyle yelled when he got to his feet.
"I think so…" Cara said as she sat up. She took a sharp intake of breath and winced.
Jan groaned slightly as she sat up dazed.
Kyle looked at them both worried. Thanks to grabbing the chair he had come out of the crash with only a few bruises.
By the looks of the other two though they hadn't been so lucky.
Jan had a large cut on her forehead where she must have hit the controls, Kyle had no doubt that she was hurt where her crash webbing was.
Cara was trying to hide her injuries but Kyle could see through the brave act, by now he was used to her. Cara's hand was clutching her side and her breathing was hard. Kyle remembered seeing her tumble from the chair. She must have hit something pretty hard.
Jan undid her seat belt and looked at the other's showing her concern.
"Stay still both of you." Kyle ordered without a trace of his usual sarcasm. He went into the back part of the ship to check their supplies. Quickly he decided what to do and went back to the cockpit.
"Help Jan first."
"Help Cara first."
Both girls spoke at the same time.
"Can either of you walk?" he asked.
"Yeh, help me up." Jan said. Kyle walked over to her and lifted her to her feet. Although dazed she managed to lean on him enough for Kyle to get her into the back of the shift and onto one of the fold out beds. Then he went back to help Cara.
Gently he moved her hand from her side and tried to determine how bad her injury was.
"I don't think its broken or digging into your lung… other then that I don't really know. Can you stand?" Kyle checked her over carefully.
Cara nodded grimly.
When Kyle took her wrist she flinched, it was injured as well. Cara cried out as she tried to stand.
"This isn't good…" Kyle muttered. Gently he lifted her up and carried her to the back. "Can you go into a healing trance?"
"Err… Not very well, it's one of my weak points." Cara replied through clenched teeth.
"Do your best, you'll need to if your going to survive…" Kyle told her gently.
After just one hour the situation had gotten worse. After treating Jan's injuries he knew she wouldn't be up to fly them out, repair the ship or make the walk to Echo Base. Cara's seemed worse. Kyle swore that if he found out who had shot the Raven's Claw out of the sky he would kill them, no matter what the Jedi Code said.
He used a sedative to help Cara sleep and hopefully enter a healing trance while he checked the ship over.
The Raven's Claw wouldn't be able to fly them out, he couldn't contact anyone and the heating systems where damaged and barely working.
"What is it Kyle?" Jan asked as she looked at him.
"I think if I can get to Echo Base before night falls I might be able to complete the mission and get some stuff to fix the ship so we can at least contact someone." Kyle answered.
"That's probably our best shot…" Jan said wearily.
"But that means leaving you two to fend for yourselves here, weakened, without proper heating, with Wompas and whatever knocked us out of the sky here. It's too dangerous." Kyle said angrily.
"Kyle, we can manage, if you want to save us all your going to have to risk your butt and get to Echo Base. But take care of yourself." Jan said to him.
Kyle leant over and kissed her gently.
"I'm always careful. I'll be back as soon as I can." He said to her.
The next moment he was gone and the ship was quiet.
It was freezing outside. Kyle struggled through deep piles of snow and tried to take his mind off the cold.
Ahead he saw the faint glow of an object in the snow. With little hesitation he headed towards it. Only when he was close enough to make out the objects did he duck down into the snow.
Snow-troopers. The Imperial Remnant was here on Hoth.
At this camp there seemed to be about three troopers gathered around the faint glow of the heat lamp. Nearby where three tethered Tauntauns.
Kyle skirted around the camp towards the large beasts. He reached out to their minds with the Force and tried to sooth the fear he found there. Hoping that the troopers wouldn't notice him, Kyle untethered all three beasts and mounted one of them. He barely had to encourage the creature to run from the camp. The other two followed eagerly.
There were only two things that Kyle knew would scare Tauntauns. A Wompa or the oncoming chill of night. Neither where options he would choose.
Jan didn't realise she had blacked out until she woke up two standard hours later. She shivered in the cold. Checking the supplies she found an old heater and plugged in a new power source.
Jan looked over to see if Cara had woken up from the sedative Kyle had given her. She hadn't and was deeply asleep.
Looking at her watch again she wondered how long they would be stuck here. She hoped that Kyle would be all right.
Night was nearly upon them when Kyle finally saw one of the large openings to Echo Base. He went to the side door and used the code that Jan had given him. Amazingly enough the door opened. Kyle dismounted from the Tauntaun and led it inside, the other two followed him in.
Kyle shut the door behind them, at least the Tauntauns wouldn't freeze in the base.
After scouting around the area he was able to find a power generator and an old heat lamp that still worked. He also located a few tools and parts that could probably fix the Raven's Claw.
After tethering the Tauntauns loosely so that they wouldn't wander off Kyle went in search of the computers. At least the mission wasn't a failure. He just hoped that Jan and Cara where safe.
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Genre: Romance
Story Description: Because, technically, the first love letter that Solo wrote to Organa was blackmail. Chapter 16 is here!
My Comment: Brilliant! Great combination of humour and romance, it's a wonderful story and has parts that make you laugh so hard your family will think your dieing! It's companion story is Unoffical Notes of the Rebellionby Tinuviel Undomiel. Also a great story! Worthy of hundreds of reads and reveiws!
